arkansas governor, mike huckabee, arizona congressman andy biggs, charlie hurt of "the washington times" and former head of the cbo, douglas holtz-eakin, we can't forget, i don't know what that means, charlie gasparino. who could forget, maybe that is what it is supposed to say. connell: he looks angry. melissa: that's normal. connell: the dow closing at record high. here we go again, second day in a row we've seen it. nicole petallides starts us off at the new york stock exchange. tell us big winners. >> big day for the bulls. another winning day on wall street. apple, microsoft leading the way. leading the day with one of our traders, stephen guilfoyle, financials moving hand in hand with the 10-year treasury bonds, 2.34%. ahead of tomorrow's numbers for a lot of those banks. we watch pnc, jpmorgan, just to name a few. the airlines very interesting, the dow jones transportation index which finished lower today hit all-time high intraday. delta pulls backs on quarterly report. jetblue a winner, seeing more traffic as well. moving on to retailers. this as target sees more store traffic.

wasted 20 minutes. liz: this takes us to former presidential candidate and governor mike huckabee. good to see you, governor. >> things, lives. good to be with you. >> we think of the trump junior e-mail story? lots of talk about the meeting show an intent to conspire with russia, that he gave different reasons for the meaning. what is your take? >> here's a guy never involved in a campaign before. he's involved with his father's campaign and someone says i may have information that would help you with opposition research on hillary. of course he takes the meeting. the bigger issue when the meeting has started, it was so exciting that jared kushner got up in five minutes left. paul manafort was lucky not his phone the whole time and after 20 minutes, donald junior said this is really a waste of my time. i think that is how america feels. america right now wishes he could get up and walk out, get on its own or just in the meeting rather than listen to the mainstream press and the democrats, but then i repeat myself. go over and over the same scenario in continually try to find some blood

on. let's bring in former republican presidential candidate, he is former governor mike huckabee. good to see you, governor. >> liz, great to be here. thank you. . liz: do you think the general is coming along at the right time? >> i absolutely do. there are has been some confusion as to what the chain of command was in the white house. i don't think there's any confusion anymore. and i think the general brings an extraordinary level of professional experience. he brings discipline and focus and a clear sense of mission. he understands what it's like to be under pressure because you don't get under more intense pressure than combat. so there's nothing in that white house that is going to shake him. nothing is going to cause him to get all sweaty about it. he knows how to manage people. he knows how to bring good people in. he knows how to let folks go. that's what a good chief of staff is all about. liz: now, governor, your daughter press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says that the president felt that anthony scaramucci's comments were quote inappropriate. that essentially the presi

putin friday as the g20 summit. bring in former governor mike huckabee. good to see you, governor? >> good afternoon, how you doing, liz. liz: and happy 4th. the president's meeting with vladimir putin looks like the first formal conversation between putin and a u.s. president in nearly two years. okay, so is president trump more worried about the media attacking him over appearing cozy with putin or getting scolded things over climate change by germany's angela merkel, what do you think he's worried about? >> neither one of them. donald trump isn't a man that is easily rattled. fascinating meeting between putin and the president. i wish i could be there to watch it. though i don't expect there to be a lot of substantive conversation in that initial encounter. i think it's going to be two alpha males, sizing each other up, i think the body language is far more important to watch than anything that either of them say, but this is going to be an interesting contrast between donald trump, who's like the muhammad ali, who looks like to use a lot of hyperbole, goes into the ring with b

contributor mike huckabee joins me. governor, good to have you back. good to see you. is there anything different or anything special about these particular protests happening now in germany as we watch these pictures come in? >> probably not, trish. most of these protesters are part of what security officials openly call rent a mob. these are people who literally travel the world. they've been to see more of the globe than most of us ever will. but the question is who finances these people? but they're the same people. i had a security people tell me at a republican convention. these are the same folks. same people. same faces, and they show up all over the world. this is not unusual, and the only thing we can hope is that there's a good security force in place to keep them from really disrupting the meetings. trish: i was mentioning when i was at g8 there in germany, i was caught up in some of those protests as i was reporting on it. but none of it became so bad that it was out of hand. and to your point in some ways, it looks rather streamlined in that people are professional protest

editorial. with us former arkansas governor mike huckabee. welcome back to the program. what do you think about general kelly bringing discipline and one voice to the white house. is the president going to listen? >> i think he will because he has got someone who in essence a peer. somebody on the same level. has been ceo of something really, really big. in this case a military operation. battlefield command. all of these are great qualities. a person like general kelly is truly tested. he doesn't care whether people like him or not. he has taken people combat. he has been in the position where he knows that the decision he makes and the way he leads, in his case, had a choice of whether people lived or died. now nobody will live or die what he does as chief of staff per se, but i think it's a good choice, a solid choice, the president is wise to pick him. stuart: does he have some diplomatic skills? because he is going to have to be a bit diplomatic when it comes to dealing with members of congress. these are politicians. he is a military guy. the president is a business guy. a hug

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